Best Drama movies of 2000s

Actors : Renée Zellweger, Robin Wright, Alison Lohman, Michelle Pfeiffer,
Directors : Peter Kosminsky,

A teenager journeys through a series of foster homes after her mother goes to prison for committing a crime of passion.

Actors : Frances de la Tour, Clive Merrison, Samuel Anderson, Richard Griffiths,
Directors : Nicholas Hytner,

An unruly class of gifted and charming teenage boys are taught by two eccentric and innovative teachers, as their headmaster pushes for them all to get accepted into Oxford or Cambridge.

Actors : Uma Thurman, Meryl Streep, Jon Abrahams, Bryan Greenberg,
Directors : Ben Younger,

A career driven professional from Manhattan is wooed by a young painter, who also happens to be the son of her psychoanalyst.

Actors : Julianna Margulies, Emily Mortimer, Andy Garcia, Steven Strait,
Directors : Raymond De Felitta,

The Rizzos, a family who doesn't share their habits, aspirations, and careers with one another, find their delicate web of lies disturbed by the arrival of a young ex-con (Strait) brought ...

Actors : Tom Wilkinson, James McAvoy, Robin Wright, Kevin Kline,
Directors : Robert Redford,

Mary Surratt is the lone female charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination trial of Abraham Lincoln. As the whole nation turns against her, she is forced to rely on her reluctant lawyer to uncover the truth and save her life.

Actors : Channing Tatum, Richard Jenkins, Amanda Seyfried, Henry Thomas,
Directors : Lasse Hallström,

A romantic drama about a soldier who falls for a conservative college student while he's home on leave.

Actors : Liv Tyler, Ben Affleck, Raquel Castro, Betty Aberlin,
Directors : Kevin Smith,

After his career is sidelined by an unexpected tragedy and a personal blow-up, a single man must take care of his precocious daughter.

Actors : Jude Law, Renée Taylor, Susan Sarandon, Sienna Miller,
Directors : Charles Shyer,

A cockney womanizer learns the hard way about the dangers of his actions.

Actors : Chutcha Rujinanon, Jinda Duangtoy, Angelica Lee, Lawrence Chou,

A blind girl gets a cornea transplant so that she would be able to see again. However, she got more than what she bargained for when she realized she could even see ghosts.

Actors : Sandra Oh, Raoul Bova, Diane Lane, Lindsay Duncan,
Directors : Audrey Wells,

A writer impulsively buys a villa in Tuscany in order to change her life.

Actors : Albert Finney, Marion Cotillard, Russell Crowe, Abbie Cornish,
Directors : Ridley Scott,

A British investment broker inherits his uncle's chateau and vineyard in Provence, where he spent much of his childhood. He discovers a new laid-back lifestyle as he tries to renovate the estate to be sold.

Actors : Asia Argento, Lukas Haas, Scott Patrick Green, Michael Pitt,
Directors : Gus Van Sant,

A Seattle musician's life and career are reminiscent to those of Kurt Cobain.

Actors : Shaun Evans, Andrew Garfield, Siobhan Finneran, Peter Mullan,
Directors : John Crowley,

The story of a young Jack, newly released from serving a prison sentence for a violent crime he committed as a child.

Actors : Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bonham, Dominic West, Mark Wahlberg,
Directors : Stephen Herek,

Lead singer of a tribute band becomes lead singer of the real band he idolizes.

Actors : Rosario Dawson, Robert Downey Jr., Dianne Wiest, Shia LaBeouf,
Directors : Dito Montiel,

The movie is a coming-of-age drama about a boy growing up in Astoria, New York during the 1980s. As his friends end up dead, on drugs, or in prison. He comes to believe he has been saved from their fates by various so-called saints.

Actors : Kirsten Dunst, Frank Langella, Ryan Gosling, Lily Rabe,
Directors : Andrew Jarecki,

Mr. David Marks was suspected but never tried for killing his wife Katie who disappeared in 1982, but the truth is eventually revealed.

Actors : Jennifer Westfeldt, Heather Juergensen, Tovah Feldshuh, Esther Wurmfeld,
Directors : Charles Herman-Wurmfeld,

A woman searching for the perfect man instead discovers the perfect woman.

Actors : Edward Norton, Frances Conroy, Milla Jovovich, Robert De Niro,
Directors : John Curran,

A convicted arsonist looks to manipulate a parole officer into a plan to secure his parole by placing his beautiful wife in the lawman's path.

Actors : Rachel Weisz, Ashraf Barhom, Oscar Isaac, Max Minghella,
Directors : Alejandro Amenábar,

A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning a slave who turns to the rising tide of Christianity in the hope of pursuing freedom while falling in love with his mistress, the famous philosophy and mathematics professor Hypatia of Alexandria.

Actors : Josh Brolin, Gemma Jones, Anthony Hopkins, Naomi Watts,
Directors : Woody Allen,

Sally's parents' marriage breaks up when her father undergoes a mid-life crisis and impulsively weds a prostitute. Meanwhile, Sally's own marriage also begins to disintegrate.